Gerasimos Tsourapas is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Judith Tucker is professor emeritus in history at Georgetown University.

Aysel Tuğluk is a Kurdish politician, a founding member and the first co-chair of the Democratic Society Party (DTP) in Turkey. She was elected as a member of parliament in 2007, banned from politics for five years when the Constitutional Court outlawed the DTP in 2009 and elected to parliament again in 2011. In 2018, Tuğluk was sentenced to ten years in prison.

Mandy Turner is a senior researcher with Security in Context.

Amanda Ufheil-Somers was assistant editor of Middle East Report from 2011 to 2015.

Jon Unruh is associate professor of geography at McGill University.

Ian Urbina was outreach editor at MERIP from 2000-2003.

Graham Usher is a writer and journalist and a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

Kerem Can Uşşaklı is a PhD candidate in the anthropology at Stanford University.

Morten Valbjorn is based at the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus.

Martin van Bruinessen is assistant professor of Turkish and Kurdish studies at Utrecht University.

Dirk Vandewalle is traveling in North Africa as a fellow of the Institute for Current World Affairs.

Shouleh Vatanabadi worked as assistant to the publisher of Middle East Report.

Mostafa Vaziri was a visiting scholar at the Center of Middle East Studies at the University of California-Berkeley.

Haleh Vaziri is a political scientist based in Washington, D.C.

Persheng Vaziri is an Iranian-born documentary filmmaker who lived for 20 years in the US.  She now resides and works in Iran.

Victoria Veguilla is professor of political science at Pablo de Olavide University in Spain.

Alejandro Velasco is associate professor of modern Latin America at New York University and executive editor of North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).

Lorenzo Veracini is associate professor in history and politics at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne.

Meriem Verges lives in Paris and finished her thesis on the urban transformation of contemporary Algeria.

Peter Verney is editor of Sudan Update, based in London.

Reidar Visser is a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and editor of the website www.historiae.org.

Robert Vitalis is author of America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier (Stanford, 2006).